Wordpress multisite + Bedrock - Default site gets /wp/ as base path

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Hi! I’m trying to set up a multisite network, for creating multiple languages of a site. I can not get the path for the default site to be anything other than /wp/. Is this a common problem? Because I would like the default language to be english, I don’t mind having /en/ as the base path, but that does not seem to work either. Does anyone have a solution for this?

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I’m also curious about this.

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See https://roots.io/bedrock/docs/installing-bedrock/#multisite

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Hello everybody!

My first post is here just to fix this for others that might have this problem.

So the things you need to check are as follows:

  1. You have proper rewrite rules. In my case, I was on NGINX and wanted a sub-folder setup so I had to use the ones in the docs here: Bedrock: Server Configuration | Roots Documentation

you can find there all the other servers and versions there as well.

  1. Check that you have configured the correct DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE constant in your application.php (or via env vars as you want). I used the settings offered here: Multisite setup?

I don’t really know why these are not in the official docs :smile: → they should be

  1. And the most important, the one that caused most issues for me, is the fact that on multisite, there is no more /wp/ in the wp-admin url, because the rewrite rules handles these.

And also, most importantly, in a multisite scenario, WordPress will no longer consider the wp-config.php constants for WP_SITEURL and WP_HOME. So these will not overwrite the ones in the DB. This means that WordPress will use the WP_SITEURL and WP_HOME that he finds in the wp_options table. So on a clean WP Bedrock multisite install, these settings in wp_options will both be configured as domain.com/wp which will make your default site to have this /wp ending.

So to fix this, if you already followed points 1 and 2, and you’re still seeing the /wp ending for your default site, then go in your mysql and manually edit these options.

I used manual queries from command line like so:

update wp_options set option_value="https://domain.com" where option_id=1;
update wp_options set option_value="https://domain.com" where option_id=2;

In this case option_id=1 is siteurl and option_id=2 is home. This should be the case in all setups. Or you might use option_name=siteurl and option_name=home instead of option_id=1 and 2 respectively.